i stumbled along the way, but i ran to that light as fast as i could. emergency, 911. listen, i have a man who s been shot in my house right here. he came from chuck e. cheese. he explains there s been a lot of people shot there. we have a call in for chuck e. cheese. we have paramedics and officer en route. i need someone to help me search the place. we have several people down. of course, media picked up on it very quickly. parents are responding. people are calling each other. the parking lot is a zoo. everyone, whole community, was just, a shooting at chuck e. cheese? no, no. the normally festive pizza shop was transformed into a scene of carnage and chaos. my best friends are in there. they won t even say anything and it drives us crazy. police say it s the worst crime in aurora in years. we always had the news on. always.
the doctors said, she s brain dead. i didn t know what brain dead meant. so i looked at the minister that was there. i said, is her soul in or out? you know what i m saying? and he said, she s with god now. outside chuck e. cheese s, police canvas the crowd for leads. my partner says, you re not going to believe this, we just talked to a guy outside who s telling us who did this. he said his name is nathan dunlap and he s an ex-employee here and he d been bragging to people he was going to come back and kill the manager. so we had the name right off the bat. police had a suspect, but now they had to find him. and once they did, the story would become more complicated than they ever could have imagined.
a tank over us. this man, he s got to be a balless wonder. that s all i can think of him. i mean, we knew when we made this decision that we were making the hardest decision, right? that we d be criticized from both sides. we try to hear all the voices and all the perspectives to try to get to justice. justice is really dispassionate. that s part of the governor s role when the governor comes in after this whole ark of judicial process and has to say, did we miss anything? is this really the right decision? there s no question that this was cold-blooded murder in the most evil sense. even to this day, i can remember listening in 1993 to the details of what happened in chuck e. cheese. and you feel a physical repulsion and a hatred. it s almost visceral, right? but that s not when you should make decisions and that s not necessarily where justice comes from.
for some reason that night, we didn t. the phone rings. and it s my sister. she said, jody, there s something on the news about chuck e. cheese. is that the chuck e. cheese restaurant that colleen works at? so we went down there and they told us to go into tony roma s. went into tony roma s and colleen was not there and i started shaking. i started shaking. a friend of mine called. he was on the police force. and he said, there s been a shooting down at chuck e. cheese. and he said, well, you better come down here right away. the police officer came up and said, your daughter has been air lifted to denver general. we were told that she was taken to a hospital, so i went and saw that she was breathing, but that was about it. the doctors said that she didn t have a chance.
that he didn t do this, but if you think he did, let s get this taken care of. she called him, and she told him, you need to come home and talk with the police right now. they ended up finding him at his girlfriend s house. he was having sex with her, and when he got the call to come back to this house, which was his mother s home, he got in the shower. after scrubbing away any physical evidence, nathan was picked up by police and questioned. left my house around 9:10, 9:20. in the evening? yes, in the evening. nathan told them, i went to chuck e. cheese. i was hungry. i went in. ordered a sandwich. nathan said he learned about the massacre from the news. they thought for sure he s part of this, but what do we have to hold him? nothing. shooting survivor bobby stephens was unconscious in the hospital and unable to help